To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.Alan Watts
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will.Milton Friedman
We shall not prevent the gradual advance of totalitarian control if we do not succeed in defeating the philosophy which produces it.Friedrich August von Hayek
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.Alfred Adler
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.Sun Tzu
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.Henry David Thoreau
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.Oscar Wilde
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.Albert Einstein
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.James Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Baldwin
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson